Drawing on a wealth of articles written by Christie Blatchford, Jonathan Kay, Andrew Coyne, Rex Murphy and many others, How Rob ￼￼￼Ford Happened examines the precipitous rise and calamitous fall of one of the most controversial public figures in Canadian political history.

From his early days as a crusading suburban city councillor to his reign as Mayor of Toronto and his eventual crowning as the city’s clown prince, the National Post presents a history of Rob Ford with all the warning signs, red flags, enthusiasms, controversies and scandals that have led to our current mayoral mess.

His grandfather Kim Il-sung, the founder of North Korea, was so omnipotent that the constitution was amended after his death to keep the preserved corpse of the “Supreme Leader Eternal” nominally in power.

His father Kim Jong-il had 25 years to prepare to take over but his sudden death last December robbed the younger Kim of the chance to annoint himself with the dynastic myth of his forbearers.

The sudden ascension of the young Kim has placed a new focus on North Korea with its nuclear capability and the world’s fifth largest military. Will Kim Jong-un resort to brute violence to assert his authority?

Peter Goodspeed, the National Post’s senior international affairs writer and a veteran of two tours of the ultra-secretive nation, takes you inside the hermit kingdom.

From its inception in 1998, the National Post has been a strong supporter of the monarchy in Canada.

Collected here for the first time are the paper’s finest tributes to Queen Elizabeth II, on the past occasions of her Golden
Jubilee and 60th wedding anniversary as well as this year’s Diamond Jubilee — a celebration of Her Royal Highness’s six decades as Queen of Canada.

What does it take to make it in the business world? If you take CEOs to lunch and pick up the tab, they’ll tell you.

And after six years, almost 300 lunches, about 300,000 calories consumed, an equal number of words written, and well over $20,000 in bills paid, William Hanley has the answers.

The best of his long-running Lunch Money columns are collected here for the first time. In these engaging profiles he highlights the focus, willpower, organization and drive that set the table for success.

The Complete Coverage of the Shafia TrialBy Christie Blatchford and the National Post

On the night of June 30, 2009, a father, mother and brother drowned half their family in a black Nissan just outside of Kingston, Ont.

On Jan. 29, 2012, Mohammad Shafia, Tooba Mohammad Yahya and Hamed Mohammad Shafia were each convicted of four counts of first-degree murder.

The apparent motive behind the killings was what the judge ultimately described as “a notion of honour that is founded in the domination and control of women, a sick notion of honour that has absolutely no place in any civilized society.” Christie Blatchford and the reporters and columnists of the National Post covered the so-called honour killings from the first reports of a submerged car to the final verdict. With her clear analysis and astute emotional observation, Blatchford provides the definitive account of a crime that appalled a nation.

An accidental journalist’s politically incorrect opinions about feminism, multiculturalism and other paving stones to hell.

In her columns on subjects ranging from Canadian literature to our educational and legal systems’ bias against boys and men to honour killings, Barbara Kay is sharp, provocative and never afraid to go against the conventional wisdom.

This collection of her best work illustrates why she is one of the National Post’s best-loved columnists.

At the peak of its fame as a global telecom player in 2001, Nortel Networks boasted a market value of $207-billion.

In a trial set to begin in Toronto in early 2012, the culmination of almost a decade of forensic and prosecutorial overkill, government lawyers will attempt to download responsibility for Nortel’s fall onto the shoulders of Frank Dunn, the former CEO of the Canadian corporate champion that filed for bankruptcy in 2009.

In this incisive collection of columns from the editor of the Financial Post, the story of the greatest corporate misadventure in Canadian history is laid bare.

Do you have questions about financial literacy, fee-only financial planning, retirement, annuities, pension envy or TFSAs? Jonathan Chevreau is here to help.

The Financial Post‘s personal finance columnist is an expert in the field, up on the latest changes to tax codes and highly knowledgeable of the industry. More important, he’s able to make that information simple, accessible and even enjoyable to read.

This collection of his best recent columns will provide a solid framework for understanding how to best manage your money in an uncertain economy.

Did you think The Help was overrated? That Bridesmaids was more ha-ha than hoorah? That The Muppets was robbed of Golden Globes glory?

Then check out Best Pictures, Chris Knight’s guide to the best, weirdest and most over-looked in 2011 cinema.

In this exclusive ebook, the National Post‘s chief film critic rounds up all of 2011’s four-star cinematic success stories, providing you with the perfect prep for that late-winter ritual known as awards season.

The National Post is pleased to announce its ambitious ebook publishing program, a first in Canadian journalism. Through National Post ebooks, readers around the world will be able to purchase collections of our best work from Apple’s iTunes, Amazon, Kobo Books, the Google ebookstore and the Sony ReaderStore.

Our inaugural ebook is The Long Road: National Post in Afghanistan, Brian Hutchinson and Richard Johnson’s groundbreaking series on the meaning, impact and cost of Canada’s decade at war. This collection of analysis, illustrations and soldiers’ stories shines in the ebook format, taking you beyond the headlines to a fuller understanding of our role in this conflict.

The Long Road is published this week at an introductory price of 99 cents and ready for reading on all the Kindles, Kobos and iPads that will be unwrapped this holiday season.

“At the Post, we’ve always believed that the digital future is good news for thoughtful, long-form journalism,” said Editor-in-Chief Stephen Meurice. “Our ebook program is proof of that.”

In the new year there will be much more to come, with titles showcasing the Post’s reportage, humour, unconventional thinking and the best lineup of columnists in the country. National Post ebooks will ensure you don’t miss the stories, columns, photographs, illustrations and video we’re most proud of by bringing them to you in the format that’s reinventing the way we read.

“This is just the latest way to take National Post wherever you need it,”‘ said Douglas Kelly, publisher of the Post. “From our Twitter feeds to our Android apps to our ebooks, you’re never more than a few swipes of a touchscreen away from our provocative, award-winning journalism.”